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Llamada a publicación de trabajos de investigación e innovación enmarcados en las siguientes líneas para sección Miscelánea del Nº 52 (2025):

• Culturas audiovisuales y artísticas en espacios educativos.
• Desarrollo Profesional Docente.
• Educación en Contextos Informales.
• Enseñanza y aprendizaje de la Historia.
• Espacio y Educación. Arquitectura Educativa.
• Filosofía y resolución de problemas morales.
• Música, movimiento y  danza en educación.
• Nuevas didácticas para la educación literaria, lingüística y transmedia.
• Paisaje, Patrimonio y Educación
• STEAM (Ciencias, Tecnología, Arte y Matemáticas).

Se admiten manuscritos en castellano e inglés, ateniéndose a las normas de autor/a de la revista.

Fecha de finalización de recepción de manuscritos: 30 de septiembre de 2025.

Claiming the importance of researching the reception of mythology in our contemporary society from a feminist perspective, the Journal of Feminist, Women and Gender Studies is calling for original contributions for a forthcoming monographic issue, which aims to be published later this year. The focus of this monographic issue will be mainly to compile various scientific articles, from multiple disciplines, dealing with gender studies in contemporary representations of ancient, medieval and modern myths in Madrid, Spain, Europe and Ibero-America.

We invite all those interested in participating in this monograph, which will be the 19th issue of our journal, to send their manuscripts, in Spanish or English, before 30 May 2025. The publication of this issue is scheduled for December 2025.
We hope you will be encouraged to participate!
Magazine website: https://revistas.uam.es/revIUEM
Twitter of the magazine: @RevIUEM
If you have any questions, suggestions or queries, please email revista.iuem@uam.es
Kind regards
Journal of Feminist, Women and Gender Studies Editorial Team

Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Issue 60 / (Re)thinking the Anthropocene: new challenges for International Relations?

Publication Date: February 2026

The call for papers of issue 61 of the journal aims to contribute to the global discussion of the concept of the Anthropocene in International Relations. The idea of the Anthropocene has become a relevant discursive concept in many contexts.  Coined in the field of geology during the 2000s, it is a term that has expanded and popularized enormously in recent years, mainly as a rhetorical instrument with which to refer to —and raise awareness of— the incidence of the serious ecosocial crisis that the planet Earth as a whole is facing nowadays. 

In social sciences, the term has been —and is being— widely explored and debated, to the point that it has become a key to understanding what has been called the “post-anthropocentric turn”. This is an onto-epistemological paradigm shift towards a conception of the world away from the anthropocentrism characteristic of Western humanism; something that Bruno Latour described as a “profound mutation of our relationship with the world”. This shift proposes the need to rethink existing structures, analytical concepts and paradigms in order to respond adequately to contemporary ecosocial challenges.

The notion of the Anthropocene has functioned, in the social sciences, as a catalyst through which to vindicate the need to break with the ontological dualism that predominates in the dominant Western collective consciousness —that inherited from rationalist modernity, and which distinguishes and hierarchizes the notions of nature/society, ideas/reality, theory/practice, among other binomials—. The term is frequently adopted as an analytical tool in its own right, characterized by its transformative potential at the onto-epistemological level. The concept is claimed as a tool to consolidate a new paradigm far removed from the classical anthropocentrism of International Relations. To speak of the Anthropocene has constituted not only an exercise in (re)designating the concrete geohistorical momentum that we inhabit, but its use has been claimed, from posthumanist and neo-materialist schools, as an opportunity to redefine the discipline as a whole, from its most basic foundations, that is, by transforming how we understand and approach our relationship with the reality and realities we study —ontology and epistemology—. The issue of the emerging Anthropocene is claimed as an opportunity to consolidate a new post anthropocentric paradigm of International Relations. 

On the other hand, also from within and outside this discipline, efforts have been made to introduce these debates and attempt to deconstruct the term, analyzing the normative and philosophical implications it reproduces. Some authors question its viability as an analytical category on the grounds that it is an anthropocentric, androcentric and western centric term; that is, that it makes invisible the heterogeneity of human societies and their asymmetrical contribution to the ecological crisis, as well as the complexity of the ecosocial phenomena linked to climate change. It is therefore a controversial concept, with an important onto-epistemological and political-normative meaning, which is constantly (re)signified depending on the context in which it is used. 

However, the discussion around this concept does not cover the great diversity of proposals that advocate the creation and consolidation of other ways of understanding and relating to the world outside the hegemonic rationalist and hierarchical consciousness. From the 1970s and 1980s, and up to the present day, numerous ecofeminist women authors have made important contributions to ethics, philosophy, critical theory, literary criticism and various social currents of ecological thought. They include Carolyn Merchant, Val Plumwood, Maria Mies, Ariel Salleh, Stacy Alaimo, Greta Gaard, among many others, and were pioneers in critiquing the dualistic, individualistic and rationalistic conception of social reality inherited from the dominant Western political philosophy. They also introduced important ideas such as the cosmological approach, the idea of “sustainability of life”, among other proposals, to analyze the interrelations between the human and the more-than-human; between social constructions, materiality and corporeity, to name only a few. Ecofeminist thought and developments have been key to articulating an effective and radical critique of Western anthropocentric and androcentric epistemologies, as well as to promoting real and effective intersectionality in the approach to social studies. However, their proposals did not need to rely on the incidence of a new geological era to propose a shift towards inclusivity and transversality in our approaches to ecosocial realities.

This new Call for Papers seeks to collect contributions that participate in this rich debate, promoting critical reflection on this and other related analytical categories. The aim of this Issue of the journal Relaciones Internacionales will be to contribute to the global discussion on the Anthropocene, the “post-anthropocentric turn” and the global ecosocial crisis by publishing research that contributes to promoting critical reflection on this and other related analytical categories.

Therefore, priority will be given to those contributions that address issues related to all of the above, from a critical point of view, understood in Coxian terms. We are looking for texts that provide critical theoretical support to the discussion by analyzing, discussing or deepening the following dimensions, categories and concepts:

• Conceptual developments in the ecosocial crisis from the theory of International Relations. a) Theoretical approaches to the concept of the Anthropocene itself, from critical positions and/or arguments in its support; b) Alternative visions and/or proposals to this concept, or defense of other existing concepts, i.e.: Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Occidentalocene, among others; How can these different notions coexist in relation to the ecosocial crisis?
• Reflections on how the study of the concept of the Anthropocene/Capitalocene/etc. has transformed (or not) the discipline of International Relations; how this development affects the dilution of disciplinary boundaries in social sciences; how it affects the transformation or rupture with the classical conceptualizations of the discipline —statist centrism, anthropocentrism, western centrism, etc.—

• Methodological proposals for the effective development of situational analysis that address the ecosocial reality from a post anthropocentric paradigm.
• Analytical proposals, from within and outside the discipline of International Relations —sociology, political ecology, ecological humanities, among others— that seek to engage in dialogue or broaden existing visions of the “post-anthropocentric turn” in social sciences.

Although these lines of research are prioritized, the acceptance of contributions will not be limited to the previously set out areas.

Issue 61 of Relaciones Internacionales will be published in February 2026; the Editorial Team of the journal and the Coordination of the issue have established the following dates:

DUE DATE

SUBMISSION OF ARTICLES

The full document of the article must conform wholly and meticulously to the Style Manual of the journal. You can obtain our template for authors by clicking here (in Spanish). The submission stage ends on 15^th September 2025 (up to and including).

The submission of the article will be made on the web-page of the journal through the management platforms OJS (Open Journal System). It is essential that the authors —all of them in the event that there is more than one— are registered by completing the requested data on the platform registration page with the most up-to-date information:

https://revistas.uam.es/relacionesinternacionales

EVALUATION PROCESS

Once the article is submitted correctly through the website the double-blind evaluation process The decision process will take between three and six months, depending on the case: this may include the return of the text to its author(s) for the revision or correction of changes and suggestions made by the anonymous reviewers. During the evaluation process, the reviewers will be responsible for certifying the quality of the work of the authors, as well as the appropriateness of the final texts for the topics proposed in the call for papers.

• PLEASE NOTE: suggestions by the authors of possible reviewers for the evaluation of their texts are permitted. With the text of your proposal, you can send us by email the names of academics with extensive knowledge of the aspects dealt with in your work so that- if the coordination considers it appropriate- these people can be contacted as blind reviewers.

DEFINITIVE ACCEPTANCE

Throughout the evaluation process (between September-December), those authors whose text receives the complete approval of the assigned reviewers will be notified of the definitive acceptance of their article, at which time they can have the absolute certainty that the paper will be published in the journal. That the article is published in Issue 61 as planned – and not in a later issue – is subject to the complete conformity of the text to the instructions indicated in the Style Manual of the journal, or other contingencies that will be duly communicated to the authors.

EDITING PROCESS

During the month of January, the journal will proceed to the definitive editing of the text, to be published in February. The complete and careful compliance with the rules stated in the Style Manual of the journal is understood to be the responsibility of the authors in order to avoid delays that could lead to postponements of the publication of your article to a later issue.

PUBLICATION OF THE VOLUME

Throughout the month of February 2026 the 61st issue of the journal Relaciones Internacionales, with the title “(Re)thinking the Anthropocene: new challenges for International Relations?”, will be published in digital format, online, open access and free. All the articles that have fulfilled the requirements of the stages indicated above will be included.

LANGUAGES

Proposals in Spanish, English, Portuguese, and French will be accepted. However, the articles must be translated to Spanish for publication. Whenever possible, the authors themselves will submit the articles translated into Spanish; the journal does not guarantee the translation of all texts.

OTHER INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS:

It is fundamental that the authors consult the Style Manual to get to know in detail the editing and evaluation requirements for publication in the journal. Moreover, the OJS system of the journal website allows for online tracking of all the administration processes and the state of the text.

Notification of copyright: the authors who publish in Relaciones Internacionales accept the following terms:

• The authors retain copyright and guarantee the right of first publication of the work to the journal, which will be simultaneously subject to the Creative Commons License Reconocimiento-NoComercial-SinObraDerivada 4.0 Internacional(CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
• The authors will be able to make other non-exclusive licence agreements for the distribution of the published version of the work (e.g., deposited in an electronic institutional archive or published in a monographic volume) provided that the initial publication in this journal is indicated.
• It is permitted and recommended that the authors circulate their work through the internet (e.g., in electronic institutional archives or on their webpage) before and during the submission process, which can produce interesting exchanges and increase the citations of the published work.
• The authors are responsible for obtaining the appropriate permissions to reproduce material (text, images or graphs) from other publications and for citing their origins correctly.
• Relaciones Internacionales does not charge the authors any fees for the presentation, submission, or publication of the articles.

ISSUE COORDINATED BY

Rebeca GIMÉNEZ GONZÁLEZ – rebeca.gimenez@uam.es

Itziar RUIZ-GIMÉNEZ ARRIETA –  Itziar.ruiz-gimenez@uam.es

1. Coordenado por:

Raúl Marcos Martín, Universidad de Valladolid (raulmarcosmartin@gmail.com)

Sara Valdivieso Bermejo, Universidad de Valladolid (saravaldiviesobermejo@gmail.com)

2. Descripción:

Ao longo da história, a educação tem sido um campo em constante transformação, refletindo as aspirações e mudanças culturais da sociedade. Ao longo do século XXI, as correntes de renovação pedagógica continuam a evoluir, respondendo criticamente aos desafios apresentados pelo mundo atual. Neste contexto, novas propostas educacionais buscam formas de aprendizagem mais inclusivas e transformadoras, vinculadas ao desenvolvimento integral das pessoas em um ambiente globalizado.

Hoje, a educação não enfrenta apenas desafios tradicionais, mas também efeitos de transformação. Assim, nos últimos anos têm sido geradas novas demandas nos sistemas educativos, exigindo uma renovação pedagógica que responda às realidades contemporâneas, promovendo o pensamento crítico, a criatividade e a aprendizagem autónoma, bem como uma maior atenção ao bem-estar dos estudantes. Esta renovação procura também dar continuidade às propostas escolares públicas, laicas e democráticas promovidas nas décadas de setenta e oitenta do século XX, colocando mais uma vez o professor no centro de um modelo de educação baseado no compromisso, na ética e no cuidado.

As preocupações contemporâneas sobre o impacto ambiental, a globalização e as transformações sociais desafiam os sistemas educativos a integrar novas formas de pedagogia que respondam às necessidades emergentes de um mundo em constante mudança. Procura transformar métodos e estruturas pedagógicas para enfrentar os desafios atuais.

Este número da REPS propõe um espaço para analisar e refletir sobre os processos de renovação pedagógica hoje, explorando as ideias, práticas e discursos que estão moldando a evolução da educação. Investigará como as renovações educacionais buscam integrar as demandas globais e locais, com uma abordagem que promova uma educação mais justa e democrática, adaptada às mudanças sociais.

3. Datas:

Inicio do prazo para a recepção de originais: 1 de fevereiro de 2025

Encerramento do prazo para a apresentação do original: 15 de maio de 2025

Publicação da Revista: 1 de janeiro de 2026                                  

4. Envio y normas para os trabalhos: https://revistas.uam.es/reps

5. Contato/duvidas: educacion.politica.sociedad@gmail.com. Também ao coordenador e à coordenadora da Revista.

Hoy aparece el número 8 de Cultura de la República. Revista de Análisis Crítico. Esperamos que la variedad de su contenido y los temas seleccionados resulten interesantes y estimulantes para todas nuestras lectoras y lectores.

Queremos avisar que por problemas técnicos la sección de las reseñas, que debería aparecer al final del número, se encuentra después de la primera sección de artículos. Esperamos poder solucionarlo en breve.

Muchas gracias por vuestra atención y apoyo y feliz lectura.

Comité editorial de CRRAC

Os traemos el número XLIII (2024) de la revista Edad de Oro.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Issue 60 / The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Ten Years Later: Progress, Resistance and Challenges

Publication: October 2025

Anniversaries are always a good time to take stock of a process, but in the case of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, due to transformations in the international context over recent years (the COVID-19 pandemic, wars in Ukraine and Gaza, accelerated climate change), it is important not only to assess its progress, but also to reflect on the relevance of the goals established in 2015 in today’s world.

On the other hand, the recent global rise of reactionary populism that rejects the 2030 Agenda, seeing it as a threat to national sovereignty and defining it with exaggerated dangers, has turned the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into a rallying point for people, organizations, and governments committed to “leaving no one behind,” as well as for those who seek to challenge multilateral governance processes (or “globalism,” in their terms) and return to a strictly national perspective.

Therefore, to mark the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the 2030 Agenda by the United Nations General Assembly in September 2015, the journal Relaciones Internacionales plans to publish a special issue on this subject in October 2025. This issue aims to examine the performance of the Agenda over the past decade and explore prospects for achieving its targets with only five years remaining until the set deadline.

The journal had the opportunity to address this topic in February 2015, when, during the transition from the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Issue 28 analyzed the path towards global sustainable development goals. In this regard, the upcoming issue also aims to serve as a connecting thread in the journal's coverage of sustainable development processes and related topics, such as developments in International Relations in regard to environment, addressed in Issues 33 and 34; human security in Issue 43; and world ecology, the Capitalocene, and global accumulation in Issues 46 and 47.

This special issue aims to address, among other topics related to the 2030 Agenda: 

• Sectoral analysis of the progress made toward achieving the various SDGs.
• Proposals for alternatives to the SDG framework at an international level, based on decolonial approaches.
• The reflection on the evolution of the different structural aspects that constitute the basis of the 2030 Agenda since its adoption:
  • The role of emerging countries and their institutional structures (i.e. BRICS) and the importance of South-South cooperation.
  • The limits of the traditional institutional system for development co-operation (OECD Development Assistance Committee, United Nations Development Program) in addressing the SDGs.
  • The confluence of different agendas and international regimes (development, environment, peace, human rights) within the SDGs, with a very marked difference in importance.
  • The adoption of international commitments through soft law instruments that are not legally binding.
  • The need to adopt coherent development policies that, transcending development divisions, affect all interventions of different actors (states, companies) at the global level, as a requirement for achieving the SDGs.
• Reflection on the issues that have been incorporated in recent years, fuelled by the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and the rise of reactionary populisms:
  • The global impact of the war in Ukraine on the SDGs, especially concerning food, energy, and financial systems, which are crucial for achieving the 2030 Agenda.
  • Technological innovation as a means to improve the achievement of the SDGs, exemplified by COVID-19 vaccines, taking into account the brutal international inequality in access to this innovation, a circumstance that could be happen again in future cases.
  • The rise of a kind of international anti-2030 Agenda movement, which aligns with issues such as feminism, multiculturalism, and environmentalism, as areas rejected by reactionary populisms at the global level.
• Analysis of what seems to be the great existential problem for humanity at a global level: the acceleration of climate change, which, beyond preventing the achievement of environmental goals (especially SDG number 13) will exacerbate other global issues, such as humanitarian emergencies, human mobility, armed conflict, access to basic resources like water, and the proliferation of global pandemics. 

Although these lines of research are prioritized, the acceptance of contributions will not be limited to the previously set out areas.

Issue 60 of Relaciones Internacionales will be published in October, 2025; the Editorial Team of the journal and the Coordination of the issue have established the following dates:

DUE DATE

SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACT

A text of between 500 and 1000 words should be sent that displays clearly and concisely the fundamental aspects to be developed in the subsequent article. The submission period ends on 1st December, 2024 (up to and including). The proposal must be sent in a PDF document indicating authors, their institutional affiliation, provisional title of the article and text of the abstract, and with the following two email addresses in copy:

• Ángel González - angel.gonzalez.navas@uc3m.es
• Jorge Estévez - jorgeestevezrodriguez@gmail.com

COMMUNICATION OF ACCEPTANCE

The issue coordinators will analyse the articles sent to check if the authors’ proposals align with the lines of investigation defined in the present call for papers, and they will communicate by email the acceptance or rejection of the proposals on the 5th December, 2024.

SUBMISSION OF ARTICLES

The full document of the article must conform wholly and meticulously to the Style Manual of the journal. You can obtain our template for authors by clicking here (in Spanish). The submission stage ends on 27th April, 2025 (up to and including).

The submission of the article will be made on the web-page of the journal through the management platform OJS (Open Journal System). It is essential that the authors —all of them in the event that there is more than one— are registered by completing the requested data on the platform registration page with the most up-to-date information:

https://revistas.uam.es/relacionesinternacionales

EVALUATION process

Once the article is submitted correctly through the website the double-blind evaluation process begins. The decision process will take between three and six months, depending on the case: this may include the return of the text to its author(s) for the revision or correction of changes and suggestions made by the anonymous reviewers. During the evaluation process, the reviewers will be responsible for certifying the quality of the work of the authors, as well as the appropriateness of the final texts for the topics proposed in the call for papers.

• PLEASE NOTE: suggestions by the authors of possible reviewers for the evaluation of their texts are permitted. With the text of your proposal, you can send us by email the names of academics with extensive knowledge of the aspects dealt with in your work so that- if the coordination considers it appropriate- these people can be contacted as blind reviewers.

DEFINITIVE ACCEPTANCE

Throughout the evaluation process (between May, 2025 - August, 2025), those authors whose text receives the complete approval of the assigned reviewers will be notified of the definitive acceptance of their article, at which time they can have the absolute certainty that the paper will be published in the journal. That the article is published in Issue 60 as planned – and not in a later issue – is subject to the complete conformity of the text to the instructions indicated in the Style Manual of the journal, or other contingencies that will be duly communicated to the authors.

EDITING process

During the month of September 2025, the journal will proceed to the definitive editing of the text, to be published in October. The complete and careful compliance with the rules stated in the Style Manual of the journal is understood to be the responsibility of the authors, and this is a requirement for the final publication of the article in Issue 60.

PUBLICATION OF THE VOLUME

Throughout the month of October 2025 the 60^th edition of the journal Relaciones Internacionales, with the title “The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Ten Years Later: Progress, Resistance and Challenges,” will be published in digital format, online, open access and free. All the articles that have fulfilled the requirements of the stages indicated above will be included.

Proposals in Spanish and English will be accepted. Nonetheless, the articles will be translated to Spanish for publication in the journal. It will be the authors themselves who send the translated articles in Spanish.

OTHER INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS:

It is fundamental that the authors consult the Style Manual to get to know in detail the editing and evaluation requirements for publication in the journal. Moreover, the OJS system of the journal website allows for online tracking of all the administration processes and the state of the text.

Notification of copyright: the authors who publish in Relaciones Internacionales accept the following terms:

• The authors retain copyright and guarantee the right of first publication of the work to the journal, which will be simultaneously subject to the Creative Commons License Reconocimiento-NoComercial-SinObraDerivada 4.0 Internacional (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
• The authors will be able to make other non-exclusive licence agreements for the distribution of the published version of the work (e.g., deposited in an electronic institutional archive or published in a monographic volume) provided that the initial publication in this journal is indicated.
• It is permitted and recommended that the authors circulate their work through the internet (e.g., in electronic institutional archives or on their webpage) before and during the submission process, which can produce interesting exchanges and increase the citations of the published work.
• The authors are responsible for obtaining the appropriate permissions to reproduce material (text, images or graphs) from other publications and for citing their origins correctly.
• Relaciones Internacionales does not charge the authors any fees for the presentation, submission, or publication of the articles.

COORDINATION OF THE ISSUE

Ángel GONZÁLEZ – angel.gonzalez.navas@uc3m.es
Jorge ESTÉVEZ – jorgeestevezrodriguez@gmail.com

MONOGRÁFICO Nº22: ESPACIO EUROPEO DE EDUCACIÓN 2025.

La llegada del año 2025 marca un nuevo hito en la política educativa de la Unión Europea: El Espacio Europeo de Educación – 2025[1]. Continuador del Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior (1998-2010), conocido a su vez como Proceso de Bolonia, y que supuso la armonización de las estructuras de los estudios de educación superior en 47 países europeos y el establecimiento de un sistema común de la “contabilidad” para la carga académica de los estudios universitarios (el Sistema Europeo de Transferencia de Créditos -ECTS por sus siglas en inglés-). Hoy es un proceso universalmente conocido y asumido en todo el continente.

El Espacio Europeo de Educación – 2025, por su parte, es el natural “descenso” de ese proceso al resto de niveles del sistema educativo, culminando toda una aspiración educativa de la Unión en la que mayor armonización de los sistemas educativos de sus estados miembros es un horizonte deseable para facilitar la movilidad de estudiantes y profesores, la mayor empleabilidad de los ciudadanos y una mejor columna vertebral identitaria en el seno de la sociedad europea.

Con la Comunicación “Hacer realidad un Espacio Europeo de Educación en 2025 y reiniciar la educación y la formación para la era digital”[2], de 2020, la Comisión 2019-2024 -con una década a sus espaldas en la que el Proceso de Bolonia se había consolidado- dejó claro que la creación de un espacio de educación europea era una de sus prioridades. Allí se estableció que “la educación es la base de la forma de vida europea y refuerza la economía de mercado social y la democracia a través de la libertad, la diversidad, los derechos humanos y la justicia social.”

La Comunicación de 2020 subrayaba que:

• La educación y la cultura son indispensables para unir a la ciudadanía europea y para el futuro tanto de la ciudadanía como del conjunto de la Unión. Toda la ciudadanía europea ha de poder disfrutar del diverso patrimonio cultural y educativo común.
• Un Espacio Europeo de Educación ha de fundamentarse en la continuidad del aprendizaje permanente, desde la educación y atención en la primera infancia, pasando por la escuela y la educación y formación profesionales, hasta la educación superior y la educación para adultos.
• Un Espacio Europeo de Educación ha de promover y fomentar la movilidad y la cooperación en la educación y la formación, y apoyar a los Estados miembros en la modernización de sus sistemas de educación y formación

Ese Espacio Europeo de Educación se articuló en torno a seis dimensiones: calidad de la educación y la formación, inclusión, transición ecológica y digital, profesorado y formadores, educación superior y dimensión geopolítica. Para valorar los logros en cada una de ellas, se plantearon una serie de indicadores de alcance a nivel europeo y nacional.

Esa iniciativa se ha visto reafirmada con el mandato que la presidenta recién reelegida de la Comisión Europea, Ursula Von der Layen ha hecho a la Comisaria encargada de las cuestiones educativas, la rumana Roxana Mînzatu[3]. En ella, le conmina expresamente a seguir trabajando en el Espacio Europeo de Educación, para, entre otros objetivos, conducir un enfoque común en el desarrollo de las competencias de los ciudadanos, la movilidad de los espacios de aprendizaje, la calidad y la inclusión, incluyendo bajo ese espacio la profundización en las Alianzas Universitarias Europeas y el fortalecimiento de ERASMUS+.

Así, los próximos 5 años supondrán, pues, un fuerte impulso de lo que ese Espacio Europeo de Educación va a significar.

Por todo ello, desde el equipo editorial de JoSPoE hemos considerado muy pertinente elaborar un número monográfico en torno a esta temática. Una temática abordable desde muy diversos enfoques y que relaciona muchas dimensiones educativas y en todas las etapas de los sistemas nacionales de educación formal.

Así, por ejemplo, pueden remitirse trabajos en relación con:

• La movilidad de estudiantes y profesores;
• El reconocimiento de cualificaciones y períodos de estudio;
• El sistema europeo de transferencia de créditos (ECTS);
• Las alianzas universitarias y los títulos conjuntos;
• Las Competencias Clave para el Aprendizaje Permanente;
• La Educación Permanente y de personas adultas, con y sin cualificación profesional;
• El reconocimiento profesional mediante evaluación de competencias a personas sin cualificación, pero con experiencia profesional;
• Los marcos de cualificaciones para la Formación Profesional;
• La posibilidad de un Bachillerato Europeo;
• El acceso armonizado a la educación superior;
• Los sistemas de recogida de información sobre los sistemas educativos -en parte posible gracias a logros institucionales de la Unión Europea como CEDEFOP o EURYDICE-;
• Las instituciones educativas puramente europeas, como las Escuelas Europeas o el Instituto Universitario Europeo;
• Los marcos de referencia para la evaluación y acreditación de las competencias en comunicación en diferentes lenguas;
• Las estrategias educativas que por décadas establece la Comisión Europea;
• La atención educativa a las personas migrantes;
• La mejora de la calidad de la educación;
• La atención a personas con necesidades educativas particulares;
• La digitalización de los procesos de enseñanza y la inclusión de la Inteligencia Artificial en la escuela;
• Los marcos de cualificación profesional docente;
• Etc…

La lista es interminable. En el fondo, son temas que se han ido incorporando todos a la política educativa de la Unión Europea desde sus inicios, cuando para apuntalar los cimientos de un proyecto pacífico y solidario se apeló a la necesidad de unas acciones en materia educativa que fueran savia tonificante para esas aspiraciones de paz y solidaridad compartida…

[1] https://education.ec.europa.eu/

[2]https://www.sel-gipes.com/uploads/1/2/3/3/12332890/2017_-_comisi%C3%B3n_europea_-_hacer_realidad_el_futuro_de_europa.pdf

[3] https://commission.europa.eu/document/27ac73de-6b5c-430d-8504-a76b634d5f2d_en

Idiomas: español, inglés

Envio de contribuciones: los manuscritos deben ser enviados electrónicamente a través del sitio web de JOSPOE respetando las pautas que allí figuran:
https://revistas.uam.es/index.php/jospoe/about/submissions#authorGuidelines

Fecha límite para el envío de las contribuciones: mayo de 2025
Publicación: 2º semestre de 2025
Editores invitados: Javier M. Valle y María Matarranz

Coordinado por Fernando Guzmán-Simón, Eduardo García-Jiménez y Alejandra Pacheco-Costa (Universidad de Sevilla, España)

La fecha límite para la entrega de los originales es el 1 de mayo de 2026, y se publicará el 1 de diciembre de 2026.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Issue 59 / Open issue

Publication: June 2025

The editorial team of the journal presents this call for papers as its annual open issue, corresponding to issue 59, and whose publication is scheduled for June 2025.

The objective of this issue will be to contribute to the global discussion from the perspective of critical theories, and through the interrogation of dominant academic thinking in the discipline of International Relations. Following the editorial line of the journal, critical and novel perspectives are prioritized, as well as the treatment of innovative themes and new approaches. This issue is, therefore, open to contributions both from the field of International Relations and other fields of research and social science disciplines (Political Science, History, Law, Economics, Sociology, Anthropology), or indeed interdisciplinary approaches- although they must take as a main axis, or have a bearing on, the international itself. Preference will be given to those contributions which offer novel and critical analysis, enabling advances in critical debates and displacing the focus of attention from those places privileged by prevailing discourses and approaches. That is, for instance, those which are fundamentally rationalist and centred on the figure of the state as principal -or even only- actor of International Relations. Some examples of novel approaches could be decolonial, ecofeminist, and ecological studies; in short, any critical analysis that tackles a perspective or theme which has been generally downplayed, neglected or silenced in the discipline.

The incorporation of critical theories, which allow for an exponential expansion in research agendas as well as the inclusion of new concepts and tools from other disciplines, fits in perfectly with the nature and objective of this open issue. Thus, the gazes, perspectives and concepts around which this issue shall be focussed are: 

• Reflections from other social science disciplines (Political Science, History, Law, Economics, Sociology, Anthropology) using plural and multidisciplinary perspectives, although emphasizing the international dimension;
• Analysis through a critical gaze of current social and political phenomena based on feminist debates, critical security studies, postcolonialism, constructivism, poststructuralism, ecologism…;
• Study of the social and international political reality giving a voice to different types of actors (state/non state), international organizations, minorities…) to achieve a broader vision through a critical gaze;
• Novel and innovative contributions that eschew the traditional and Western-centric approaches to International Relations in favour of greater theoretical openness;
• Contributions on relevant questions for International Relations like resistance, the environment, development, Global South, religion, mobility, borders, peace, security, justice, health…

All the articles sent for evaluation and possible publication must conform to the editing and style guidelines of the journal, which are detailed in the Style Manual. The publication will take place during the expected dates, and will be made available online and with open access.

The Editorial Team of the journal and the coordination of the issue have established the following important dates:

DUE DATE

SUBMISSION OF ARTICLES

The full document of the article must conform wholly and meticulously to the Style Manual of the journal. You can obtain our template for authors by clicking here (in Spanish). The submission stage ends on the 15th September, 2024 (up to and including).

The submission of the article will be made on the web-page of the journal through the management platform OJS (Open Journal System). It is essential that the authors —all of them in the event that there is more than one— are registered by completing the requested data on the platform registration page with the most up-to-date information:

https://revistas.uam.es/relacionesinternacionales

The platform OJS (Open Journal System) will allow for the tracking of all the administration processes and the state of the text.

COMMUNICATION OF ACCEPTANCE

The coordinators of the journal will analyse the articles sent to check if the authors’ proposals align with the lines of investigation defined in the present call for papers, and they will communicate by email the acceptance or rejection of the proposals on the 15th October, 2024.

EVALUATION process

Once the article is submitted correctly through the website, the double-blind evaluation process begins. The decision process will take between three and six months, depending on the case: this may include the return of the text to its author(s) for the revision or correction of changes and suggestions made by the anonymous reviewers. During the evaluation process, the reviewers will be responsible for certifying the quality of the work of the authors, as well as the appropriateness of the final texts for the topics proposed in the call for papers.

• PLEASE NOTE: suggestions by the authors of possible reviewers for the evaluation of their texts are permitted. With the text of your proposal, you can send us by email the names of academics with extensive knowledge of the aspects dealt with in your work, so that- if the coordination considers it appropriate- these people can be contacted as blind reviewers.

Throughout the evaluation process (between November and May), those authors whose text receives the complete approval of the assigned reviewers will be notified of the definitive acceptance of their article.

EDITING process

During the month of May 2025, the journal will proceed to the definitive editing of the text, to be published in June. The complete and careful compliance with the rules stated in the Style Manual of the journal is understood to be the responsibility of the authors, and this is a requirement for the final publication of the article in Issue 59.

PUBLICATION OF THE VOLUME

Throughout the month of June 2025 the 59^th edition of the journal Relaciones Internacionales, with the title “Open Issue,” will be published in digital format, online, open access and free. All the articles that have fulfilled the requirements of the stages indicated above will be included.

Proposals in Spanish, English, Portuguese, German and French will be accepted. However, the articles must be translated to Spanish for publication. It will be the authors themselves who send the translated articles in Spanish.

OTHER INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS:

It is fundamental that the authors consult the Style Manual to get to know in detail the editing and evaluation requirements for publication in the journal. Moreover, the OJS system of the journal website allows for online tracking of all the administration processes and the state of the text.

Notification of copyright: the authors who publish in Relaciones Internacionales accept the following terms:

• The authors retain copyright and guarantee the right of first publication of the work to the journal, which will be simultaneously subject to the Creative Commons License Reconocimiento-NoComercial-SinObraDerivada 4.0 Internacional (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
• The authors will be able to make other non-exclusive licence agreements for the distribution of the published version of the work (e.g., deposited in an electronic institutional archive or published in a monographic volume) provided that the initial publication in this journal is indicated.
• It is permitted and recommended that the authors circulate their work through the internet (e.g., in electronic institutional archives or on their webpage) before and during the submission process, which can produce interesting exchanges and increase the citations of the published work.
• The authors are responsible for obtaining the appropriate permissions to reproduce material (text, images or graphs) from other publications and for citing their origins correctly.
• Relaciones Internacionales does not charge the authors any fees for the presentation, submission, or publication of the articles.

COORDINATION OF THE ISSUE

Laura CORRAL – laura_corral99@hotmail.com
Elena LEDO – elenaledomartinez@gmail.com